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Donald Trump will be serving a second presidential term, and with both chambers of Congress likely under Republican leadership—though the House is still to be decided— the future of education in the U. S. could starkly change. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Trump has pledged to dismantle the Department of Education, cut federal funding for schools teaching critical race theory, and bar transgender female athletes from participating in school sports.

Two people were taken to the hospital after a kitchen fire extended into the attic of a home in Denver’s Berkeley neighborhood on Friday afternoon, according to fire officials. The Denver Fire Department responded to a single-family home near West 44th Avenue and Winona Court at around 1:25 p.m. and found heavy smoke coming from the house, agency officials said in a post on X. Hoarding conditions made it difficult for the 48 firefighters who responded to the blaze, the agency said on X.

There has been a lot of back and forth over actions that President-elect Trump will take in his second term, not least of which involve health. As the president who oversaw the COVID-19 response—which public-health experts say was lacking in many ways, aside from the development of vaccines—Trump has made sweeping statements about what the future of the American health care system will look like under his leadership. He’s promised to “make America healthy again,” and allow long-time vaccine critic Robert F.

This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Sarah McBride took the stage in Wilmington, Del., on Tuesday night, making history as the first openly transgender person elected to Congress. By the time the week ended, the battered Democratic Party’s support for trans rights was shakier than ever, as two of McBride’s future Democratic colleagues’ waffling on the issue was splashed across The New York Times. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Such is the seesaw facing a party that wrongly thought they had cracked a code and built an intersectional coalition that would deliver the White House to Kamala Harris, perhaps defend their slim majority in the Senate, and maybe even claw back the third slice of the governing trifecta, the unruly House of Representatives.

A 16-year-old inmate at a Greeley youth detention center died Tuesday after being in intensive care since last month. Authorities did not say how the teen died, only calling it a “medical emergency.” On Oct. 21, police responded to the Plate Valley Youth Services center on reports of a contraband narcotics violation in the facility, police said in a news release. Detention center staff told police that they found the teen unresponsive in his cell at 6:48 a.m.

Despite concerns buyers would delay home purchases until after the election, metro Denver’s housing market sizzled in October. That activity bucks a national trend. A Redfin survey shows that 23% of first-time buyers plan to wait until after the election to purchase, citing economic uncertainty, potential rate cuts, and candidate policy impacts. According to the monthly report from the Denver Metro Association of Realtors, homebuyers closed on 3,443 properties last month, up 2.3% from September and an 8% jump from 3,189 in October 2023.